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Club director and historian Debbie Dyke assembled this two-page resource guide to help TVS members save time when they are looking for local and national astronomy contacts. This information was current as of our August deadline for the newsletter.
Bay Area astronomy clubs and organizations
Tri-Valley Stargazers (TVS): http://www.trivalleystargazers.org/
Eastbay Astronomical Society (EAS): http://silcon.com/~eas/index.html
Chabot Space and Science Center: http://www.chabotspace.org/
The Astronomy Connection (TAC): http://observers.org/
Fremont Peak Observatory Association (FPOA): http://astronomy-mall.com/fpoa/
Mount Diablo Astronomical Society (MDAS): http://members.aol.com/mdas101b/private/members.htm
San Jose Astronomical Association (SJAA): http://www.sjaa.net
Other interesting astronomy/space web sites
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Orbital predictions for many satellites including MIR, the International Space Station, the Iridium Satellites (which can be exceedingly bright -- a definite wow factor), and the space shuttle (when it's up). Plug in your latitude and longitude, and it will tell you where and what time to go out and look for the satellites.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
This site that lets you see what the Earth and Moon look like at any given time and place.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
The NASA photojournal site -- lots of pictures of the planets taken from the various spacecraft sent out
over the years (Voyager, Pioneer, Galileo, etc.).
http://www.skypub.com/resources/directory/usa.html
This is a direct link to Sky & Telescope's web page listing astronomy clubs throughout the U.S.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System. This site has a lot of info and images of the planets.
http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/astrophot.html
This is the web site of Axel Mellinger, a former Bay Area resident and TVS member. He's an amateur astronomer who takes excellent astrophotos. His composite Milky Way photo is an amazing achievement and can be purchased as a poster from Sky Publishing (www.skypub.com).
http://welcome.to/astronomy.com
Phil Harrington's web site. Covers some of the info in Phil's books (see book list on following page).
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